No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.